Here are some beginner-level instructions on how to reboot your Amazon EC2 Instance through the AWS Management Console (you can also do it through
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Here are some beginner-level instructions on how to reboot your Amazon EC2 Instance through the AWS Management Console (you can also do it through
Read MoreHere is the scenario: I used Bitnami to create a WordPress install on a free Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) micro instance (see this
Read MoreBlogging can be a very personal experience. You’re baring your soul before the world. You are vulnerable. One of the worst things is to
Read MoreHere is the scenario: You’ve searched high and low and found the perfect WordPress theme for yourself or your client. But, there’s one big
Read MoreWe all want to protect the content that we create for our blogs and websites, right? Wouldn’t it be terrible if someone copied your
Read MoreIs your WordPress site loading slowly? There is a cool tool called Pingdom which creates waterfall charts so you can see exactly what is slowing
Read MoreMuch has been written about the differences between Facebook Pages and Groups. When I needed to decide which to use for a project, I
Read MoreI was given the task to fix a website bug of the following nature: There is an iframe containing a “submit” button. When the
Read MoreOne of my blogs reached a level of popularity and income where I started thinking about trademarking the name of the site. I figured
Read MoreThis is a pretty common thing to do, right? You have hosting at Go Daddy but your domain is registered with someone else, like
Read MoreWhen I visit my own websites, I don’t want Google Analytics to count those visits. Google provides two ways to exclude your own visits,
Read MoreThe cool little icon that shows up in each web page’s browser tab is called a “favicon”. Adding this tiny detail really gives your
Read MoreAfter I upgraded from PHP version 5.2 to 5.3, my websites exploded with PHP warning messages similar to this: Warning: date() [function.date]: It is
Read MoreOften times you’ll have an image, perhaps a logo, that you want to use on a website, and you’ll want that image to have
Read MoreMost WordPress landing pages either contain static information or the latest posts. But what if you want the both worlds – a landing page
Read MoreWe’ve all heard of bloggers who pull down six-figure incomes. It sounds great: work at home writing about some arcane topic from time to
Read MoreAre you tired of using the same old boring web fonts? Without describing all of the browser compatibility problems in detail, here’s a quick
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